How to Use émigré in a Sentence

émigré

noun
  • He was one of a group of Soviet émigrés living in New York.
  • Retiree Marie Diaz, 59, of San Jose is among the emigres.
    Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 18 June 2018
  • Retiree Marie Diaz, 59, of San Jose, is among the emigres.
    Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 18 June 2018
  • Shops that cater to the city's large community of Russian emigres line the streets near the consulate.
    CBS News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Most were emigres from Texas who brought their politics to El Monte.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Her father, 93-year-old Cuban emigre Carlos Canal, wasn’t feeling well, the nurse told Schwartz.
    Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Most Russian emigres in London live a world apart from such intrigue.
    Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • She and Yuri slept in the same bed at the home of a Russian emigre who sometimes served as a surrogate mother and sometimes threatened to evict them.
    Michael Mewshaw, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The comparisons didn't end there: Dawnay also went on to marry a prince—a Russian emigre to Britain.
    Hilary Fox, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Could these French rural emigres be the leading edge of a massive population shift back to the countryside?
    Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2017
  • For more than a decade, London has seen the ceaseless arrival of wealthy Russian emigres, including oligarchs fleeing the Kremlin and those still in Putin's good graces.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
  • An elderly blind woman fears losing her sister to a charming Russian emigre on the Maine coast.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • These things are posed on simple backgrounds, their only context the gray-haired emigres in adjacent photos.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Subtler tactics were used to lure back various homesick emigre artists and writers.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • That effort was energized by José Gomez Sicré, a Cuban emigre who in the late 1940s started assembling a collection of works by artists from member countries.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • His Caffe Roma buddy and fellow emigre Arnold Schwarzenegger inspired him.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Meyer, an emigre from the Netherlands, had already explored extensively in northern and central China when Fairchild tapped him, in 1916, to go to southern China.
    Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Other emigres were of the same generation and background, like Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who created the orchestra soundtrack at the dawn of talkies.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Cleveland, the letter noted, had been seen as a friend by English emigres but seemed unusually hostile recently in a fisheries dispute with Canada.
    Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • The goals of the organization were twofold: to relieve immediate needs as well as to educate Mexican emigres to be more accepted and successful in their new country.
    Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The new prosperity, often funded with capital from Cuban emigres overseas, prompted resentment and complaints from the hundreds of thousands of Cubans who still live on state salaries averaging $30 a month.
    Washington Post, 10 July 2018
  • The new prosperity, often funded with capital from Cuban emigres overseas, prompted resentment and complaints from the hundreds of thousands of Cubans who still live on state salaries averaging $30 a month.
    Andrea Rodriguez, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
  • Critics have called the mural, painted by Russian emigre Victor Arnautoff, racist and offensive toward people of color.
    Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Another 30 percent are Bay Area emigres wanting to flee exorbitant housing costs.
    Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 21 May 2018
  • Indeed, as Britain and its grandiose capital have become a home for many Russian emigres, an alarming number of Kremlin critics residing in the country have died in mysterious circumstances.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
  • American and Swiss officials have also made inquiries about Soviet-era emigre Beloussov, according to two people informed of the matters.
    Joseph Menn, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But on the whole, the State Department stubbornly resisted letting Jewish emigres in, refusing even to fill the existing annual legal quota, let alone increase it.
    Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • His view did not prevail, however, resulting in a military disaster for the emigres and a foreign policy debacle for the president.
    Joseph P. Kahn, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2018
  • By May, however, the Russian security services had begun to visit families of emigres to pressure them to convince their relatives to return to Russia.
    Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2022
  • At the same time, Tibetan emigres say an official campaign of repression and forced assimilation in their homeland is intensifying.
    Douglas Busvine, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2017

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